An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

FINSEN, Niels Ryberg

2 entries
  • 2000

Om anvendelse medicinen af koncentrerede kemiske lysstraaler.

Copenhagen: , 1896.

Finsen was the founder of modern phototherapy. He demonstrated the value of invisible light, the actinic or chemical ray, the ultra-violet ray, as therapeutic measures. He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1903.



Subjects: THERAPEUTICS
  • 4002

La photothérapie. Les rayons chimiques et la variole. La lumière comme agent d’excitabilité. Traitement du lupus vulgaire par des rayons chimiques concentrés.

Paris: G. Carré & C. Naud, 1899.

Finsen was a pioneer in the treatment of lupus by means of light. English translation, 1901.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY